What NYConnects is about
Nanyang Connects wants you to know that it all begins with the heart. At the heart of Design Thinking for sustainable communities is the Thinking Heart, Feeling Heart and Giving Heart. Please listen to the sharing of our invited speakers and ask good questions, questions that will seek out the heart and the purpose of their mission.
Aim of lectures
Learning
- How did they do it?
- What did they learn?
Inspiration
- Get ideas
- Understand purpose
Programme
Nanyang Connects has invited 4 speakers for this series of talks on sustainable community. It is our privilege to meet these young social entrepreneurs.
1. Society Staples. Meet the co-founder Ryan and find out more about their venture in this website here: https://www.societystaples.com.sg/
Meet the other co-founder Debra Lam here:
and here:
- To build an inclusive future
- Integrating disabled people into society so that we do not see them as different or separate
- See Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) as a staple of society
- Until this becomes a norm, they will be that binding forces that staples PwDs and society together
- Social communication
2. SDI academy. Meet Sazzad Hossain. You may watch why Sazzad started this academy here:
- Believes in the power of learning
- Refugees and migrants lack access to quality education and are vulnerable to social exclusion
- SDI Academy blends digital media and rigorous data collection to design and deliver high-quality courses which up-skill immigrants and help them assimilate into the mainstream
- Working towards creating safer and more productive workplaces by providing language, vocational and computer skills training
3. Wateroam is a company started by a group of young men with a mission.
Read about their mission:
http://www.wateroam.com/our-story.html
You can watch these young men at work here:
- Improve the life, living and livelihood of every individual globally
- Provide access to clean water through simple, portable, durable and affordable water solutions
- Put an end to constant diarrhoea caused by unclean water
4. StandCraft is a Singaporean company that “transforms spaces into places”. Find out more about Galven and Shirley here:
- Transform spaces into places by providing beautiful, modular and rapidly produced installations for events, trade shows and pop-ups
- Combining expertise from technological and architecture background
Schedule
0830 – 0900 Assemble in Auditorium and Setting Expectations
0900 – 0925 Galven and Shirley (Standcraft)
0925 – 0950 Sazzad Hossain (SDI)
0950 – 1020 Q&A
1020 – 1025 Presentation of Souvenirs
1030 – 1115 Recess
1115 – 1140 Jaron (Wateroam)
1140 – 1205 Ryan (Society Staples)
1205 – 1240 Q&A
1240 – 1300 End and Presentation of Souvenirs
1300 – 1415 White Space
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